19.2-178 - Where prisoner kept when no vacancy in facility or hospital. - Virginia Statutes

§ 19.2-178. Where prisoner kept when no vacancy in facility or hospital.

When a court shall have entered any of the orders provided for in §19.2-168.1, 19.2-169.1, 19.2-169.5, or 19.2-169.6, the sheriff of the countyor city or the proper officer of the penal institution shall immediatelyproceed to ascertain whether a vacancy exists at the proper facility orhospital and until it is ascertained that there is a vacancy such personshall be kept in the jail of such county or city or in such custody as thecourt may order, or in the penal institution in which he is confined, untilthere is room in such facility or hospital. Any person whose care and custodyis herein provided for shall be taken to and from the facility or hospital towhich he was committed by an officer of the penal institution having custodyof him, or by the sheriff of the county or city whose court issued the orderof commitment, and the expenses incurred in such removals shall be paid bysuch penal institution, county or city.

(Code 1950, § 19.1-236; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495; 1995, c. 645; 2010, cc.340, 406.)